Album Review: Micachu & The Shapes - Good Sad Happy Bad

2 September 2015 | 3:21 pm | Guido Farnell

"They totally rip up the rule book."

After crafting an eerily beautiful soundtrack for Under The Skin, Mica Levi reunites with The Shapes for their latest album.

Reportedly inspired and pieced together from a jam, the London three-piece deal out 13 rough and raw experiments in avant-garde pop that charm with buoyant energy and childlike naivety. It takes a little patience to enter the space they create on this album. The abrupt endings leave these jams feeling perhaps a little unfinished. They totally rip up the rule book and defiantly put it all back together on their own highly original and instinctively musical terms.